Rep Pat Dillon: Net Neutrality_ Medicare Savings Program (MSP)

Vote to restore Medicare Savings, and Rep Dillon requested that a bill be raised barring Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that do not adopt net neutrality from qualifying for state contracts. In the second year of session, under joint rules, legislators can only file bills with a fiscal impact, but committees can raise bills establishing policy.

1/31/2018 Net Neutrality/ Medicare Savings Program (MSP)

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Friends and neighbors,

I’ve just taken action on two issues of importance to you: net neutrality and Medicare Savings Plan (MSP).

Net neutrality: I have written to the

chairs of the Government Administration and Elections Committee to request that they raise a bill barring Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that do not adopt net neutrality from qualifying for state contracts. My proposal is needed because the Trump administration overturned the Obama policy of treating all Internet traffic equally to maintain an “open Internet.” In the future, carriers like Verizon and Spectrum can control your access to information by charging for certain sites, deciding how much money to charge, or slowing sites down and speeding up access to others. The FCC has broader authority than those on the state level, but this proposal begins to protect your access to information.

Medicare savings (MSP): I voted to overturn Gov. Malloy’s veto of our restoration of $54 million to Medicare Savings. More than 113,000 seniors and disabled individuals, including many of your neighbors, depend on the program to purchase their Medicare Part B benefits. Many of you reached out to me, and I listened. But as I shared with you, benefits are protected only until the end of this fiscal year, and we did not restore cuts to HUSKY or to Connecticut Mental Health Center. To protect you after July 1, we must choose between cutting other programs or raising revenue. We are currently looking at revenue options and awaiting the Governor’s budget proposal for next year.

Sincerely,

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